What about Clem?
On Thu, January 22, 2015 3:29 pm, Chapman, Leah wrote:
> On 24th January 1965 Sir Winston Churchill died at the age of 90. As
> prime minister during the Second World War Churchill embodied British
> resolve and fighting spirit, yet he came to that office late in his
> career and in the bleakest of circumstances. As Churchill himself
> observed, it was as if his whole life prior to that point had been but a
> preparation for the challenge that now faced him. His long life left a
> lot of archival evidence, so let us look as some of the less obvious
> sources that exist.
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> A school for writers
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> While he is the most famous of Old Harrovians Churchill, as a writer, was
> educated at a school that already had a strong tradition in that field.
> The archives of Harrow School contain material for Sheridan, Trollope,
> Lord Byron and much else besides. Visit their website for more
> information.
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> http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/1843/public-facilities/research-the-harrow
> -school-archive/
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> Early influences
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> Never forget that Churchill was half-American. His mother, the society
> beauty Jennie Jerome, provided the introduction for her son to important
> figures in the United States. Among them was the politician William
> Bourke Cockran, from whom the young Churchill was to learn so much about
> oratory. Cockran's papers are in New York Public Library and they contain
> a number of Churchill's letters. Follow this link for the details
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> http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/cockran.p
> df
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> Standing up to the dictators
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> As Britain tried desperately to avoid war in the nineteen-thirties,
> Churchill warned of the dangers of appeasing dictators. One of the most
> scathing and effective critics of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin was the
> cartoonist David Low. So it is no surprise to find correspondence between
> the two anti-appeasers among Low's papers at Yale University. Churchill
> was also a subject of Low's cartoons, as you can see by following the
> link
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> http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3591997
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> Winston Churchill: Struggle for Survival
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> The Second World War was directed, on the Allied side, by elderly men who
> were often not in the best of health. While Churchill comfortably
> outlived both Roosevelt and Stalin, this was largely due to careful
> management by his personal physician, Lord Moran. After Churchill's death
> Moran published a controversial account of his famous patient, which was
> seen by many as a bit too revealing. There is more about this in Moran's
> papers, follow this link.
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> http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp
> =Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28AltRefNo%
> 3D%27PP%2FCMW%27%29AND%28Level%3D%27Collection%27%29%29
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> Finally
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> A search for Sir Winston Churchill using Discovery on The National
> Archives website identifies archive material in 107 collections and 39
> different repositories, but to spare you the trouble here is a link.
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> http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F59439
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> Alex Ritchie
> Archives Sector Development
> The National Archives
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